Dates and Times of the Phases

  • First Quarter Sunday, April 2 3:16 PM
  • Full Moon Sunday, April 9 6:27 AM Pink MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Sunday, April 16 12:39 PM
  • New Moon Monday, April 24 3:49 PM

Also in April

  • Passover Tuesday, April 11 Jewish; begins at sundown the evening before
  • Easter Monday, April 16 Christian; the Sunday after the first Full Moon of spring (by the Church's tables)
  • Lyrids meteor shower peak on the night of April 21–22 up to 18 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 6% lit, 7 of 7 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: April 17–26.

Times are in Columbus time (America/New York), and moonrise and moonset are for Columbus. Each day's Moon is turned as it is in the sky of Columbus when it is highest that night (near the New Moon, that day).

March April 2028 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday
31 Friday
1 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 38% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:04 AM
Set: 1:55 AM
2 Sunday
First Quarter
3:16 PM
Visible: 49% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:09 PM
Set: 2:48 AM
3 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 60% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 1:21 PM
Set: 3:34 AM
4 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 71% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 2:35 PM
Set: 4:13 AM
5 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 81% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 3:50 PM
Set: 4:46 AM
6 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 89% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 5:05 PM
Set: 5:16 AM
7 Friday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 96% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 6:21 PM
Set: 5:44 AM
8 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 99% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 7:37 PM
Set: 6:13 AM
9 Sunday
Full Moon
6:27 AM
Pink Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 15 days
Rise: 8:53 PM
Set: 6:43 AM
10 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 98% ↓
Age: 16 days
Rise: 10:08 PM
Set: 7:16 AM
11 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Passover
Visible: 93% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 11:20 PM
Set: 7:55 AM
12 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 87% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: –
Set: 8:40 AM
13 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 12:26 AM
Set: 9:32 AM
14 Friday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 1:23 AM
Set: 10:30 AM
15 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 60% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: 2:10 AM
Set: 11:31 AM
16 Sunday
Last Quarter
12:39 PM
Easter
Visible: 50% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 2:49 AM
Set: 12:33 PM
17 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 41% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:21 AM
Set: 1:34 PM
Dark night
18 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 32% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 3:48 AM
Set: 2:35 PM
Dark night
19 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 23% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 4:12 AM
Set: 3:34 PM
Dark night
20 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 16% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:35 AM
Set: 4:32 PM
Dark night
21 Friday
Waning crescent
Lyrids meteor shower
Visible: 9% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 4:56 AM
Set: 5:31 PM
Dark night
22 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 5% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 5:19 AM
Set: 6:32 PM
Dark night
23 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 5:42 AM
Set: 7:34 PM
Dark night
24 Monday
New Moon
3:49 PM
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 6:09 AM
Set: 8:38 PM
Dark night
25 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 1% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 6:41 AM
Set: 9:43 PM
Dark night
26 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 4% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 7:18 AM
Set: 10:48 PM
Dark night
27 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 9% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 8:04 AM
Set: 11:50 PM
28 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 15% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 8:59 AM
Set: –
29 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 24% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:03 AM
Set: 12:45 AM
30 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 34% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:12 AM
Set: 1:32 AM
1 Monday
2 Tuesday
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday
5 Friday
6 Saturday